WOODSTOCK. BtVS Intertext/Allusion.
In “School Hard” Spike claims to have been present at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the festival held in Bethel, New York from August 15 – 17, 1969 that has become the embodiment of counterculture and the hippie era.
Vampire: Yes. This weekend, the Night of St. Vigeous, our power shall be at its peak. When I kill her, it’ll be the greatest event since the Crucifixion. And I should know. I was there.
Spike: You were there? Oh, please! If every vampire who said he was at the Crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock.
Vampire: I oughta rip your throat out.
Spike: I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flowerperson and I spent the next six hours watchin’ my hand.
Between 400,000 and 500,000 people descended on a rain-soaked pasture near Woodstock, New York for three days to listen to some of the 60s most influential musicians, including Joan Baez, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead and Neil Young. Woodstock has become synonymous with uninhibited sex, drug use and other youthful exuberances.
Woodstock is also the name of the little bird character in Charles Shultz’s Peanuts, the cartoon strip referred to by Willow in “Helpless.”
Willow: I went to Snoopy On Ice when I was little. My dad took me backstage and I got so scared I threw up on Woodstock.